tech transforming the music industry as it has in the past with phonographs etc 1878

not quite an ipod nano – Thomas Edison very radical concept of recording “annihilate time and space”

3 factors

Costs of producing music falling

Cheap to distribute music

Explosion of content

Need new ways of discovering content that you like

Helping listeners find new music

Pandora trying that – awesome

Hired hundreds of musicologists and analyzed on musicology terms and make recommendations based on this – enter an artist that you like and match to other similar artists – have tried it

The meters – new Orleans funk band.

Last.fm

Mines social data –

Download plugin attached to itunes and it tracks every bit of music you listen to and makes recommendation based on that.

MP3 blogs

Fluxblog, tofuhut, soul sides, music for Robots

Serious music geeks, mavens find rare music and hunt the internet

Some illegal music.

MP3 blogs catering to each niche or genre

Lots of them

Pitchforkmedia.com

Infamous for their rating scheme but a large following impact on selling music

How do get this music onto your ipod

bittorent

pay services

to download – itunes

monthly fee – rhapsody

The long tail and digital distribution

New economic models

Long tail – when inventory storage and distribution is cheap you can sell less popular items – record store would carry 40,000 items, but itunes has infinite shelfspace – long tail. Entering a world of abundance better for us, and a larger market for music that is not only hit drive.

Emergence of a musician middle class.

Future

Record companies form a brand around artists.

Effects of technology on music production

Death of the album, song packaging etc

No reason to bundle the songs – perhaps release a track a month etc.

What’s going to happen to copyright?

Gettingstartedwithblogging at Northern Voice – looks like its good.

Finding your voice

Security by obscurity doesn’t work

RSS people can subscribe to it

Contains updates from all blogs

Way for people to subscribe to your blog.

When you set up your blog you can choose whether to publish an RSS feed, on by default or off by default ???

Technorati search engine for blogs

Blog software produces the RSS feed automatically. Link to stuff on your blog from your website to get the RSS benefits – which is about the latest stuff. – actually visaversa – link from website to blog.

Bloglines – to review blogs

How to add users to wordpress….

Matt demo’ed

Multiuserwordpress new non profit site

Geek Out session

Robert Scobie – published a book on blogs in business

Kevin Marks – technorati

Nice guy from Bryght

Rain City studios

Adding data to your lbo9gn rss feeds

Tags and technorati – Jan 2005 started

Index key words

Add microcontent to the html in your feed so that

Microrormats

Blog finder in technorati you can edit yourself – can change your tags to clarify tht you are writing abou

Do your tagging for blog finder

Explore the blogoshpere – pick out common categories

Category = tag

Subtle diff between category and tag

Tag – words that belong to this post, category can be subdivided are categories.

Social software at its newest

Creating a calendar from events on your boog blogspot????

Extracting info on the fly

Trend adding extra meaning to your html through tags events names and addresse, standardizing on common markup to share meaning.

So I asked Matt who is very sweet and wrote WordPress how to upload images. I wondered if the blog is hosted by WordPress if that makes posting images difficult as it was with Blogger back in the day. But he said it shouldn’t be a problem. He did tell me that after I hit upload I have to drag and drop the image into the body of my post. Where in the codec (help for WordPress) does it mention dragging and dropping? He said it should be in the codec. So here goes I will upload an image of an apartment I have for rent which actually is already rented.

YouTube converts video for you to Flash -Flash deadend out out of the ipod loop.

Revver transcodes video to .mov and after people view the movie they are taken to a paid ad and paypal sends you some pennies

Blip.tv blogging video hosting connect with Flikr account.Stays in format you upload it in – if it is .mov itunes won’t see it if .wmv>RSS??

This guy likes dailymotion.com it will upload and transcode any format for RSS entry – MP4 and Flash.

150 Meg restriction

Uses H246 compression – buy QT player pro $30 and it will output your video in H246 compression which works for podcasting??

Video coming to Flikr which will be the main server place.

Community Building with Blogs

Nice session, circle seating, very little chat by facilitators.

Patterns of communities and how they are supported and enabled by blogs

aggregate blogs

links between blogs and the communities that emerge

linking with different communities, crossing lots of cultures both ethnic, background, age group etc.

making connections with people through blogs and meeting in person is good. (better than just meeting?? apparently some people have such good memories that they remember all about the person from reading their blog when they meet them)

Making links with people all over.”Writing yourself into existence”

Blogs build up networks of people in same geographical commonality, also other commonalities like hobbies and interests.

Shift from facades, creating identities to the up close and personal nature of blogging.

To keep from being overwhelmed people have a small community of bloggers they keep up with or go into the future with – through RSS feeds- and then the core group is extended through RSS.

Some people found the extended community more rewarding.

Kevin Marks Technorati

friendships, personal and business communities

process of invitation an important part – invite yourself and getting invited.

The RSS feed is invisible – the topic is the only connection not the person.

Someone from Edmonton has a blog called Web 2.0 Central and he likes bridging the online community to the live community.

Community is different than interlinking blogs, seek to understand the person on the other side of the blog.

Powerful part is access to individual experts and access to future thoughts of people by adding their blog to your RSS feed (don’t have to search)